Re: OT: SF: Le Guin, Elgin, Spinrad, etc.

For those old enough to remember, there was the short-lived sci-fi
television series from the early 1970's called "The Starlost" about the
inhabitants of a generation ship (who didn't know they were on a ship but
one day find the "exit" door to their "habitat" section of the ship and
break out into the operational area of the ship only to discover that the
crew is gone (I can't recall if the crew had died or abandoned the ship).
The only answers were from a dysfunctional HAL-like computer
named "Magnus."  The production values were terrible, but since I was only
in my early teens at the time and ga-ga for sci-fi, I loved the show.  As I
recall it was created by Harlan Ellison, but he was so disgusted with what
the producers did with his idea that he forced the studio to change his
name on the credits to "Cordwainer Smith."  I wonder if it's available on
video or DVD?

--John Quijada